[Tagging] 'name' variation tags standardisation

[Craig Wallace]

On 25/06/2010 16:36, Alex Mauer wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 10:24 AM, Craig Wallace wrote:
>> But how do you know whether the part after the colon is a language code
>> or a type of name?
>> eg "alt" is the ISO 639-2 code for Southern Altai.
>
> Does openstreetmap use the ISO 639-2 codes?  It looks to me like it uses
> ISO 639-1.

 From the multilingual names page: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names

"People seem to generally agree on using name:code=*  where code is a 
language's ISO 639-1 code, or ISO 639-2 if an ISO 639-1 code doesn't exist."